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This ruling is so wonderful, b”h! Praise be Israel and her judges and her people.

I have a correction for Judge Jane Roth. She ruled, Pacer:“In the Orthodox Jewish tradition, a married woman cannot obtain a religious divorce until her husband provides her with a contract called a “get” (pluralized as “gittin”),which must, in turn, be signed by an “eid,” or witness. A woman who attempts to leave her husband without obtaining a get becomes an “agunah” (pluralized as “agunot”), which subjects her to severe social ostracism within the Orthodox Jewish community.”

No. Many Orthodox rabbis in the USA, those supporting ORA and agunahinternational, and much of the public do support a woman attempting to leave her husband without obtaining a get and would never ostracize her in the least. Why? Even Rabbi Mendel Epstein reversed himself and now says that forced gets are worthless, e.g. Pacer, “The government contended that the real purpose of the conspiracy was mercenary, but the defense was prevented from explaining to the jury that any such purpose would have been defeated by securing gittin that were compelled (meaning, against the husband’swill), as a consent that was compelled would not be recognized by the Orthodox asvalid and were thus worthless.”

Forced gets are worthless, true. The 30 years efforts to obtain many of them got Mendel Epstein a 10 year jail sentence for kidnapping conspiracy. This was due to Rabbi Ralbag’s testimony. Without his testimony, the government had no case of kidnapping conspiracy.

In treifa America.--- many Orthodox rabbis and much of the public support ORA and agunahinternational. Today these rabbis and much of the public approve of angry wives remarrying without a get. I see wide support in the USA of that Kamenitsky-Greenblatt ruling that Tamar can remarry while her husband refuses her a get. Aharon Friedman withstood a physical assault, $60,000 paid to Mendel Epstein two shuls, besides many rallies etc. In the USA Aharon is the bad guy and Tamar the hero. In Israel, a judge fined a neighbor xxx NIS for making rallies against a get refuser. That’s libel in Israel, not in America.

I see no change in the long list of rabbinic endorsements for ORA. ORA still advertises: “Join us in protesting get-refusal by participating in a rally against a recalcitrant husband.” There’s no change on agunahinternational. This is like the resistance against Trump. There’s no acceptance that Hillary lost. I’m a Netanyahu and a Trump supporter.

“These campaigns have delivered two results – both of which are far different from the ones the Left intended.

First, they have made a very large portion of the public hate the Left. Whereas in the past the public sympathized with the Left but voted Right because it believed the Left was well-meaning but misguided, today little of that goodwill remains.

The other, deeper, consequence is that terms that should be deeply meaningful have now become virtually meaningless.”

It’s a chillul hashem for rabbis in the USA to support ORA and agunahinternational.The campaigns in the USA of ORA and agunahinternational against Aharon Freidman and similar and the campaigns that Tamar is free, meaning that the Kamenitsky-Greenblatt approval of Tamar marrying her lover while her husband, Aharon, refuses her a get delivered two results far different from the radical feminists of the USA intended. First, it made a large portion of Israelis hate the radical feminists of the USA. In the past, many Israelis sympathized with the radical feminists of the USA thinking maybe in America, one needs to violate halacha, for all kinds of reasons. Kangaroo courts and forced gitting---what’s else to do in treifa America? Today, a large portion of Israelis hate what Mendel Epstein and Aryea Ralbag etc did for 30 years. The opposite in the USA, a large portion of Jews and rabbis still support forced gittin and support the K-G heter etc.Second, the campaigns in the USA of ORA and agunahinternational against the get relacitrant makes the term meaningless. Fine, call a man a wife beater and such. We knw what that means. Never call a man a get recalcitrant, a now meaningless term.The good judge in Israel fined the neighbor 300,000 NIS for libel. American Jews: wake up!.

https://cross-currents.com/2017/09/15/orthodoxys-smashing-success-lurking-challenges/ BY AVROHOM GORDIMER · PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 15, 20...

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